NationStates Jolt Archive

Planned Parenthood offering gift certificates
Anti-abortion groups condemn their sale
—Jessica Reaves
December 3, 2008
What do you get the person who has everything—except adequate health insurance? If you live in Indiana, consider this offering from the state's Planned Parenthood affiliate: gift certificates in $25 increments.

The vouchers, available online and at 35 clinics statewide, can be used for health services or contraceptives. And yes, they can be used to pay for abortions.

Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, characterizes the response to the gift certificates as "pretty robust, and generally very favorable."

She estimates that "about a dozen" certificates have sold since they became available Nov. 25. Planned Parenthood of Illinois plans to sell similar gift certificates starting Monday.

full story here:http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-talk-planneddec03,0,3497971.story



I definitely know a few people I could get these for...

anyone else have any good holiday gift ideas?

First I'll be needing a special someone.

First I'll be needing a special someone.

just hang around planned parenthood for a few days, im sure you'll find someone.

I figure this could be useful should I ever be in need of a good hard slap :p

also I'm torn between super engineered super socks and something that I would like (come to think of it why don't we all just buy ourselves presents this year?)

First I'll be needing a special someone.

*scratches your name off the Christmas list*

just hang around planned parenthood for a few days, im sure you'll find someone.

you would be surprised actually >.>

That combined with a jar full of brine, a new holiday decoration!

This is the ultimate prank gift.

Ha ha ha, ho ho ho, but seriously, if you know a teen/young adult who's active and has no health insurance and perhaps is not getting proper preventative care, maybe not the stupidest gift ever....

...though if I were a parent and someone gave one to my kid I'd be pretty annoyed that they obviously knew something I didn't....


.... might be an interesting gift for a parent TO give a teen...

Wouldn't giving bionic dildoes and plastic vaginas accomplish the same thing? :confused:

Oh great, LG, now I have the theme for the Six Million Dollar Man stuck in my head.


With other things.

DO NOT WANT!!!!

Wouldn't giving bionic dildoes and plastic vaginas accomplish the same thing? :confused:

so would ryhypnol *ba-dum-tish*

Oh great, LG, now I have the theme for the Six Million Dollar Man stuck in my head.


With other things.

DO NOT WANT!!!!

Ain't it fun when stuff said on NSG get stuck into your head?

I definitely know a few people I could get these for...

anyone else have any good holiday gift ideas?

Minoritybug! You're back! :fluffle:

Private healthcare is bizarre.

it seems like an excellent gift to give a young woman after her first semester in college. birth control is expensive.

Private healthcare is bizarre.

Bizarre doesnt even begin to cover it comrade.

Im just waiting for someone to come in here foaming at the mouth about "TEH BABY KILLING GIFT CERTIFICATEZ!!1!"

Actually this reminds me of a summer camp I had gone to years ago. They had set a big ol' box o' condoms outside the nurses office "just in case we felt like exploring..." I'll just let NSGs collective imagination run wild now...

water balloon fights?
(they suck for them, btw)

Im just waiting for someone to come in here foaming at the mouth about "TEH BABY KILLING GIFT CERTIFICATEZ!!1!"

OMG THEY KILLZ TEH BEBES!:eek:

Wouldn't giving bionic dildoes and plastic vaginas accomplish the same thing? :confused:

that would be a six million dollar dildo then....a little out of my price range..

Minoritybug! You're back! :fluffle:

its been a long time and there are no novelty threads...i needed to do something about that....:D

Bizarre doesnt even begin to cover it comrade.

Im just waiting for someone to come in here foaming at the mouth about "TEH BABY KILLING GIFT CERTIFICATEZ!!1!"


you could also just give a pregnant woman a gift certificate to the local liquor store, it would have the same effect...

Heh reminds me of the York College Sexual Health Week slogan I designed :D

"Keep your gifts wrapped this Christmas"
(free condoms at the SU office)

There's scope for a great romance story in this, I feel.

Heh reminds me of the York College Sexual Health Week slogan I designed :D

"Keep your gifts wrapped this Christmas"
(free condoms at the SU office)


another good one could have been...

"dont splurge on your girlfriend this christmas, instead get her a pearl necklace."

Ha ha ha, ho ho ho, but seriously, if you know a teen/young adult who's active and has no health insurance and perhaps is not getting proper preventative care, maybe not the stupidest gift ever....
...though if I were a parent and someone gave one to my kid I'd be pretty annoyed that they obviously knew something I didn't....

.... might be an interesting gift for a parent TO give a teen...

Actually what would be more interesting is if the child asked it for a Christmas present.

water balloon fights?
(they suck for them, btw)
Putting them on over your head and running around the woods until you pass out and are raped to death by bears?

Putting them on over your head and running around the woods until you pass out and are raped to death by bears?

or putting a couple of magnum XLs on your fists and DPing a midget, which one would be more illegal?